Roger Cohen of the New York Times turns to a Kipling poem to express his despair about the world.
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Using Kipling to Voice Despair
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A Cancer Patient Reads “The Bacchae”
One of my students, suffering from cancer, has an exciting interpretation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”
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Harper Lee’s White Liberal Fantasy
Important though it was, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was also a white liberal fantasy.
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Novels: Training Ground for Citizenship
Novels have an inherently liberal dimension in that they get us to identify with people very different from us.
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